Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey

Bright Shiny Morning

Author: James Frey
Publisher: Harper
Published: May 13th 2008
isbn: 9780061573132



The author of A Million Little Pieces has written an excellent book, best described as having Los Angeles as its main character. Yes, there was the big Oprah stink about A Million Little Pieces, but true or false, fiction or nonfiction, it was a great book. James Frey writes beautifully and deserves to be read. I truly enjoyed this novel. - Lisa

The New York Times Book Review

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel--a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original.

Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines--some never to be seen again--but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to be undone by a moment of searing humiliation; a supremely narcissistic action-movie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearly destroys him; a couple, both nineteen years old, who flee their suffocating hometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city; and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home.

Throughout this strikingly powerful novel there is the relentless drumbeat of the millions of other stories that, taken as a whole, describe a city, a culture, and an age. A dazzling tour de force, "Bright Shiny Morning" illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.

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